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Re: No.

Somehow I sense an oldfag vs newfag war coming on between the members and I don't feel like dealing with people getting butt hurt. I'm locking this thread to avoid any problems, if an Admin wants to re-open, go ahead.

"Conscars" (7:16:35 PM):until I noticed his legs, i thought it was a :conspiracy:

Re: No.

dark57 and onotix have been banned upon request of the original user (both the same guy).

Originally Posted by AdmiralBacon

This should be a serious forum, as it's geared towards a technical subject, not random posting and porn (ie, 4chan or any other chan).

Yes, I would love to make this site a more serious in what we hope to achieve. However, at the same time, I don't want it to become a srsbzns-only site where humor leads to a permaban. Yet then again, it's hard to exactly put a foot down on what we want and don't want due to the differing points of view here.

"...I solve problems. But not problems like 'what is beauty,' as that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy." -TF2 Engineer, Meet the Engineer

This again leads me to bringing up my personal eternal struggle for a balance between quality and quantity. It's hard when many cultures clash; goons, /b/tards, pricks, toughguys, artists, morons, etc, at least in our current state. We're a modding website, yet I look around and not a lot is being done. Our most active section is Halo CE (due to the fact that the forums were founded by a Gearbox Forums userbase). All of the other sections don't seem to get as much attention, namely, the Orange Box forum. TF2 is obviously a favorite of most users here, yet this community has only spat out two maps since we launched, and both were made by jahrain, who is now inactive.

In order to achieve our goal, we need YOU to help and contribute. Yes, YOU. The users. Each staff member only knows so much about any given topic if anything at all, and there's a lot of untapped potential in this userbase. Granted, we are missing some tools to help the userbase along (e.g. an article system), and I realize that.

Originally Posted by Mr Buckshot

I'd start making more "electronics review" threads if they didn't keep getting flames.

In all honesty, Buckshot, for some reason your electronics review threads seem to come off as useless and a bit condescending. In fact, your general posting style comes off as condescending. Whenever I see a post of yours, you usually manage to compare the subject at hand to your own personal life, as if you're living the dream and everything else is garbage compared to it, especially the topic. I'm not the only one who feels this way; a number of my friends and a couple other staff members also share this opinion.

Originally Posted by ICEE

yeah and its unfortunate. However, higher members tend to be perfect cocks once they get widely considered "higher members". Not naming any names some of them seem like they want to keep other members down. There are of course very good helpful and knowledgeable "higher members", and they are the ones I respect. Those who push around their imaginary authority can kiss the filthiest part of my body.

I agree that there has been a bit too much elitism and newbie bashing around here lately. This is another moral dilemma I'm faced with. While I'm all for a community that helps one another out, I can't help but feel that sometimes, people need to know when they're screwing with is, and screw with them right back, and it's mostly in part due to my working in retail for the past 3 years (). It's unprofessional, yes, but this is a situation where I feel complete professionalism is too far. Look at Bungie. Frankie (when he was there) and Lukems regularly poke fun at the userbase, occasionally singling out users or groups who did something completely and totally wrong (think of the Waahhmbulance Matchmaking ban updates with the e-mail excerpts). That said, one of these days I would like to sit down with other staff members, revise the AUP and discipline system, and make it clear on what flavor of bashing is acceptable (mint or strawberry, idk). Yeah, yeah, we should have no bashing period, but you have to admit, sometimes making someone realize that they're running around with their fly open and sack sticking out in the brashest, loudest way possible is just what the doctor ordered.

(DISCLAIMER: What I just said are my own personal views. I realize that I do not own this site and have no right to go and change things on a whim, or enforce my own set of ideals if they conflict with anything the staff has going. If needed, I will change up my methods to better suit the site.)

Re: No.

One thing that consistently gets on my nerves, and has recently calmed down, is the way that members tend to agree with long-standing artists in the community that have years of experience.

First, we sound harsh because often times, it's not the ego-stroking congrats that the new people want to hear, but then, it's taken even less seriously because of the fucking squawking parrots that want to back up our opinions in the nastiest, rudest way possible.

I'm already viewed as an asshole, I don't need help, thanks. If you're not a seasoned artist that knows the terminology and the work flow, I don't need you to quote me and say, "YEAH U FUKIN NOOB, GIVE UP", because that's not what I'm saying.

Not forgetting :conspiracy: theorists about the :conspiracy:
Stop crying about it. Stop crying that you don't have access. Stop crying that you think that it's used for some opression plots. You have no clue about it.